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Assistant
to Director of an Institute; Director of
Department of computerization and information technologies; Director of
Center
for Development of City School system; member or a team, leader of a
group of consultants for schools and school districts (initiation,
implementation, growth,
support, assessment, audit of innovations in education).

(III) Learning

graduated from schools with high GPA; participated in
a wide range of extracurricular activities; developed personal approach to
teaching (flipped the classroom before the approach was described in
publications); published papers on various aspects of advancing education;
converted publications into PhD theses and then found an adviser; moved to a
country without knowing the language; learned the language; learned how to
teach using foreign language; started publishing in foreign language.

I
am an "investigative blogger". I insert myself into a situation I study
and then I expose all BS I found there (BTW: BS means "beyond
sense-making). I
am not an idiot or a reckless person. The reason I can allow myself
writing what I think, even if that is perpendicular to commonly adopted
and conventional views, is that my financial situation is sufficient and
stable. Of course, as a normal person, I wouldn't mind making more money, or being involved in more interesting projects (as described in my generic resume). But I do not have to pretend to be someone I'm not to make my living. I am aware of the fact that my chance to find many professionals with similar views is slim. The demand for "professional correctness" is taken to such an extreme that it has become a demand for personal conformity.
I believe in telling truth. Truth is facts. Facts are science. Facts
can be upsetting or encouraging, but facts cannot be offensive.
I also know (and fine with that) that the chance that my writing will
have a significant effect is negligible. But the butterfly effect exists, so the chance is not exactly zero.

P.S. A large portion of my ideas come to me while I am in traffic or in a
swimming pool. During the day there is not often much of a time to formalize them
in a fashionable way. This blog is the best I can do. Well, so far - let's wait for retirement.

“In 1898, a Russian schoolteacher, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935),
proposed the idea of space exploration by rocket. In a report he
published in 1903, Tsiolkovsky suggested the use of liquid propellants
for rockets in order to achieve greater range. Tsiolkovsky stated that
the speed and range of a rocket were limited only by the exhaust
velocity of escaping gases. For his ideas, careful research, and great
vision, Tsiolkovsky has been called the father of modern astronautics.”"